Career
Braunias grew up in Mount Maunganui reading Roy of the Rovers, a comic book that would come to influence his later columns through its characters" names. He has worked as editor of Capital Times, feature writer at Metro magazine, deputy editor of the New Zealand Listener and senior writer at the Sunday Star-Times. He was also staff writer at Metro magazine, and syndicated a weekly satirical diary to six Fairfax newspapers.
He currently works one day a week as Editor in Residence at Wintec in Hamilton, as well as writing for the New Zealand Herald.
He is the author of a number of books, and has written for satirical television series Eating Media Lunch and The Unauthorised History of New Zealand.
